PRU13 Political Parties' Theme Songs

So the 13th Malaysia General Election is here and we can see all parties and even Rosmah are trying hard to be creative in order grab more votes from young and first time voters. Recently, there are many videos on Facebook & YouTube promoting their theme and vision of their parties. I have found some videos and posted them here.

No doubt, some videos are very funny. They can be the best entertainment during this election!

MCA PRU13 Promo Song - Love Is In The Air


DAP PRU13 Theme Song - Ubah


Ubah Rocket Style


Which one is better? The simple conclusion we can do: The side with more creative talents can build a greater team, to do a better work and to deliver a better result. As for election, of course, we can't simply judge everything with just watching these videos.

Bonus: Rosmah Mansor Singing "If Tomorrow Never Comes"

Prestashop - Increasing State ISO-Code Length

I believe that many Prestashop users has issue when inserting ISO Code for state due to the character length. Some countries accept 4 character state ISO Code. However, for certain countries like Malaysia, there are 5 character state ISO Code. Hence, I created this random post for solving this problem, guiding you how to increase ISO Code character.

Let's start the action.
Step 1: Update PS_STATE In SQL Database
i. Go to Database in PhpMyAdmin
ii. Search for ps_state
iii. Go to Structure Tab
iv. Select ISO Code and click on Change
v. Insert 5 to Length/Value field and click Save

Step 2: Change The Length of ISO Code Length Validation

i.  Open /classes/State.php with your editor

ii. Go to line #46 (For version 1.4.7 & above)

iii. Change the following code from
protected  $fieldsSize = array('iso_code' => 4, 'name' => 32);

To protected  $fieldsSize = array('iso_code' => 5, 'name' => 32);

Step 3: Change The Regular Express of ISO Code

i. Open /classes/Validation.php 

ii. Go to line #310 (For version 1.4.7 & above)

iii. Change the following code from

static public function isStateIsoCode($isoCode)

{

 return preg_match('/^[a-z]{1,4}$/ui', $isoCode);

}

To

static public function isStateIsoCode($isoCode)

{

return preg_match('/^[a-z0-9-]{1,5}$/ui', $isoCode);

}

Step 4: Change The Length Input Textbox 

i. Open admin/tabs/AdminStates.php

ii. Go to line #120  (For version 1.4.7 & above)

iii. Update the size value

<input maxlength="5" name="iso_code" size="5" style="text-transform: uppercase;" type="text" value="'.htmlentities($this->getFieldValue($obj, 'iso_code'), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8').'" /> <sup>*</sup>
'.$this->l('1 to 5 letter ISO code').' ('.$this->l('official list here').')

It is done now!

How Many F Can You Get?

Count how many F in the paragraph and see how many F you get!

FINISHED FILES ARE THE 

RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC 

STUDY COMBINED WITH THE 

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS 

Most of the people get 3 Fs for first count! How about you?

DAP's Promo Videos

It's 2012 and the Malaysia General Election is getting near. The social media war never stop after 308, using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Blogs. Both sides are trying hard fighting on new media channels, using creativity to attract the attention of rakyat and convince the rakyat to choose them. They have specific theme for their marketing campaign. When it was 2008, the mandarin theme used by BN was "Zai Zhuan Bian", means Change Again. However, it was like a fail theme.
Recently, I found an interesting and creative election promo video made by DAP. The theme is Bersihkan Malaysia. Through this video, I think we can foresee the 13th GE DAP's campaign theme now.

Title: Ubah Sekarang, Bershikan Malaysia!


The video was used by DAP on social media during 2008. It was the time I started to watch M'sia politic movement. They were using "Just Change" as theme for their marketing campaign, especially on new media's channels.

Title: DAP Voice


Here is another short promo video about Malaysia election made by Youth4Change Malaysia.
Title: Ubah Gaya Hidup

Happy New Year 2012

If it didn’t Bring you Joy, Just Leave it Behind.

Let’s Ring in the New Year, With Good Things in Mind.

Let Every Bad Memory Go, That Brought Heartache and Pain.

And let’s Turn a New Leaf, With the Smell of New Rain.

Let’s Forget Past Mistakes, Making Amends for This Year.

Sending You These Greetings, To Bring you Hope and Cheer.

Happy New Year 2012!

Burger King RM1 ala carte Coupons, From Monday to Sunday

Burger King Malaysia is giving out Free coupon. Get RM1.00 ala carte: 

• French Chicken  on Monday
• Double Chick 'N Crisp on Tuesday
• Grilled Chicken on Wednesday
• 6 pcs of Chicken Tenders on Thrusday
• 3 pcs of Mozarella Cheese on Friday
• Whopper Jr® on Saturday
• BK Fish on Sunday

with purchase of any value meal.

How to Redeem?
- Print the coupons (Click on the coupons below to download), in black & white or color and show it at your nearest Burger King outlet (Except Burger King KLIA).
- Not valid for Burger King Delivery.
* Coupon Valid from 19th December 2011 - 8th January 2012

CSL 3S Center & Dual Sim Andriod Smart Phone

 CSL 3S Center is now opened in Perai. It is located in ground floor of Megamall Penang, in front of McDonalds Restaurant. 3S means sales, services, and support. Hence, you can find out and purchase various CSL phone in this center as well as obtaining technical supports for CSL phone.

Product Review at Life1 Cafe
As a blogger, I was invited to join the opening ceremony and CSL product review. After listening to welcoming speech by founder of CSL Group of Companies, Dato Dr. Eric Chuah, me and my blogger friends moved to Life1 Cafe for CSL product review session. We were served with nice foods prepared by Life1 Cafe like nuggets, omelet, spaghetti, fish chips and fruit juice. At this moment, we were listening to product presentation and trying the features of the CSL Swarovski Series and the Swicth Dual MI350. Everyone was discussing about the phone features, especially the mobile apps featuers.

CSL Swarovski Series

There are four phone models in CSL Swarovski Series which are (BB-Blueberry) BB9200, BB9300, DS900 and G16 (All models are white color). Personally, I think these models and the designs are suitable for ladies, and of course they come together with basic functions. Besides that, there are some interesting social media apps developed by CSL in these models which are Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, MSN and so on. The price is ranging from RM299.00 to RM399.00 only.

The Swicth Dual MI350

It is the 1st Dual Sim Andriod smart phone in Malaysia, equipped with 5MP camera and 3.5”inch LCD Screen. This smart phone can activate both simcard at the same time. Hence, you can retain your current mobile phone for voice call using SIM2 and get the most attractive data package for SIM1. The Andriod platform allows you to download hundred thousand of apps on Andriod market, providing you better entertainment, productivity and so on. And, the price is only RM699.00. It is CSL's mission for every Malaysians to be able to afford a CSL Smartphone.

If you want to know more about CSL products and its detailed specification, you may visit CSL's official website at http://www.csl.my.

CSL Group of Companies

The CSL Group of Companies (CSL) was founded by Dato Dr. Eric Chuah in 1999. Over the past decade it has earned substantial recognition from the Malaysian Government including that of Technology Status Company/Manufacturer by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and by the Ministry of Finance for its pioneering role in the mobile telephone industry and contribution towards economic development consonant with the 9th Malaysia Plan.

Curiosity About 1Pengguna.com

Web and social media are part of my interests. Besides reviewing about commercial web project, I think I need to know more about the government web project. Hence, I take this opportunity to review Malaysia government's web project, 1Pengguna.com or 1Pengguna.net.

www.1pengguna.com

When I read the news about RM1.4million web portal for consumers, I think it is a good move to help the rakyat and consumers maximizing the values from their spending. However, as a consumer, the 1Pengguna.com really disappointed me. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean to criticize this project.

Issues & Questions:

1. Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Ministry already owned Smart Consumer Portal (http://www.smartconsumer.my/) since 2009, it is a consumer portal which serves as almost the same role with 1Pengguna.com. So, why they still spent RM1,400,000 to develop a new one instead of improving the Smart Consumer Portal?

2. The minister claimed that they have 3.5 million hits last 2 days (source from newspaper) and caused the website “teething problem”. However, the registered users in 1Pengguna.com are only 2903 (1.20pm, 11/6/2011). Besides that, through their social media links inside 1Pengguna.com, they have only 88 channel views on YouTube, 23 followers on Twitter, 142 Facebook friends (Not Facebook Page). Trying to be optimistic, total up the number, it is even less than 0.001% from 3,500,000 hits. So, is it logic to have 3.5 million hits?

3. The latest news zone in 1Pengguna.com, they are not fully consumer–related news. Those are only link to bernama.com’s news. The website footer has poor alignment too and also poor integration with social media like Facebook. We can see it is not professional enough and should it cost RM1.4million?

Curiosity About The Contractor Company – Sand Consulting Sdn Bhd

According to TheStarOnline (http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2011%2F6%2F11%2Fnation%2F8883275&sec=nation), the contractor is Sands Consulting Sdn Bhd (http://www.my-sands.com). I visited their official website, they are just using open source Joomla (I used that template before) to build their website instead of developing it with own web expertise. After reading their history, I realized that it is a 9 year old company in Malaysia.

www.sands.com

Sand Consulting’s History

Sands Consulting is a 100% Bumiputra status company incorporated in March 21, 2002 under The Companies Act 1965 of Malaysia with the registration number of 574596-M. Since then the Company has channeled substantial resources towards developing its main activity, which to provide solutions and products from plain network cabling to complex multi-systems integration.

Through the “Reach To Us” zone on the website right bottom, I click on their Twitter(http://twitter.com/#!/sands) and YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/sands), trying to follow them on Twitter. 3 followers on its Twitter is not the issue, but their official website on Twitter account. It is http://www.sands.com/.

http://twitter.com/#!/sands

According to their About Us: “Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) is the leading global developer of destination properties (integrated resorts) that feature premium accommodations, world-class gaming and entertainment, convention and exhibition facilities, celebrity chef restaurants, and many other amenities.” 

www.sands.com

So, are they tech company or properties developer? Are they Malaysia company or US company registered in Malaysia?

Regarding to their YouTube channel, it is better for you to see yourself at http://www.youtube.com/user/sands.

There are a lot of criticisms to 1Penggnua.com. It is a RM1,400,000 project, 100 x RM14,000. This amount can fund many quality youth projects or for aspiring entrepreneurs to implement start up their small business, helping many people in Malaysia. Hence, it is logic to see many Malaysian feel angry, feel frustrated, feel disappointed with 1Pengguna.com.
The "issues and questions" section are just my opinion, doesn't mean to criticize anyone. 

Why I Love Universiti Utara Malaysia

Universiti Utara Malaysia is an interesting university! Why? See the pictures and you will understand! 

When Ultraman standing behind Dewan MAS

Should play movies during semester break

Kamen Rider visiting Chancellory

Ip Man 3?

Legend of the Fist: Return of Chen Zhen (to UUM)

Who am I? I'm UUM Spiderman

The scene in Transformer 4: Transforming University

Hopefully this will not happen

Kitty at EDC Hotel

Sometimes can listen to Barack Obama's speech

Pikachu is on Chancellory

Now I think I will miss my university always after graduate... ^ ^
Do share it with your UUM friends!

COB Practicum Briefing (UPDATED)

These information are only applicable to following courses: B.Mktg, B.Ent, BBA, BBA (Logistic & Trans), BMA,  BIBM, B.Tech.Mgt, and B.Oper.Mgt!

Thanks to Brian for giving me update. These information are applicable for the following courses too: BHRM, BBank, BFin, BRMI, BIFB, BAcct.IS, and BAcct!

First of all, there is something you should know about the new name of UIL. The name of UIL (Centre of University-Industry Link) has been changed to CUIC (Centre for University Industry Collaboration).

Important Dates for Practicum Session A101: 
Report Duty Date:
1. 20/12/2010 – 19/4/2011 (4 months Practicum)
2. 20/12/2010 – 19/6/2011 (6 months Practicum)
Report Submission Date:
1. 3/5/2011 (4 months Practicum)
2. 3/7/2011 (6 months Practicum)

Once you start the practicum in the company, you have to submit the report form. It has to be mail or fax to Pn. Salina Ali one week from date of registration which is 20/12/2010 – 3/1/2011.
The address is Student Department & Alumni Office, FWB Building, COB. However, the fax number is 04-9286406. Please be aware to send it to the right person who is Pn. Salina Ali. If it is not submitted, mark will be deducted.

The Evaluation of Practicum
The evaluation of the undergraduates’ practicum consists of employer’s report (20%), UUM Supervisor (20%) and Final Report (60%).

The 20% of employer’s report will be judged based on work discipline, ability to critical analysis, leadership, skills, physical personality traits.

The evaluation by UUM lecturer will be based on Log Book, Attendance, Student’s Characteristics, Student’s General Knowledge. And, the 20% of UUM Supervisor evaluation will be divided to log book contents (10%) and attendance (10%).

Regarding to Employer's Report, please make sure that it reach to your Practicum supervisor! There are two options:
1. Fax to your Practicum supervisor (Attention to your practicum supervisor). Fax Number: 04-928 6406
2. Submit by yourself (Put it in envelope and seal it).

Please be aware with the Employer’s Confidential Form too. After downloading it, remember to fill in your personal details and your practicum lecturer details. Because it has to be send to your practicum lecturer but not the practicum coordinator, so the details of your lecturer is very important to make sure it is sent to the right person.

Important Reminders for Practicum Undergraduates
- Buy log book at CUIC and read the regulation inside the log book.
- Write on the log book everyday and neatly.
- Contact CUIC for any problems during practicum.
- Check email and portal from time to time.
- Download related forms from CUIC website. The session of Practicum starting from December 2010 is A101.
- You are not allowed to apply any leave & holiday except you have M.C from government hospital.
- Introduce yourself to your practicum lecturer in UUM before the practicum starts.

Attention to BAcct.IS and BAcct Students 

The Final Report is in different format compared with other courses. Remember to meet your practicum report supervisors for more clarification. And, the report cover must be Light blue plain paper and comb binding.

Important Dates:

Report Proposal - Send before or on 20 February 2011 by E-mail to your Practicum Supervisor.

Progress Report - Send before or on 24 April 2011.

Final Report - Send on 03 July 2011.

- Apply "Tidak Lengkap" Status on 03 July 2011 - 04 August 2011

- Apply "Tidak Lengkap 2" Status on 04 August 2011 - 04 September 2011

*Information above are contributed by Brian Fernandes, UUM BAcct.IS student.

To download the related forms and documents, please visit CUIC website. Go to downloads and then find forms (Students). 

The CUIC web address is http://www.cuic.uum.edu.my

Telephone No: 04-928 5193, 04-928 5194

Fax No: 04-928 5760

*Practicum Lecturer = Practicum Supervisor (Search it in your Portal)

Share it to your friends if they didn't attend the Practicum Briefing!
The review of Practicum Report Syllabus for B.Ent and BBA soon! Stay tuned...

When Minister of Higher Education Visited UUM

When Minister of Higher Education visiting UUM last two weeks, "some people" were working hard to welcome him! 


Make him happy, asking international students from different countries and some important students to welcome him with their local culture and attire, and having meal together! 


Everyone shake hand with him and say "Welcome to UUM"..


No one dare to speak about UUM problem to him when met him there, trying to find the solution together!


(Maybe students need to protect themselves from being punished)

Then it ended up with Minister of Higher Education is happy with UUM, happy with the welcoming meal!


He thought UUM is a very good University, full of international culture, UUM students are living in a very good environment and never see the dark side of it!


As a undergraduates, I think we should do something which really make effective improvement!